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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
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I been away a long time.
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I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
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You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!
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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.
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